EU-Mercosur trade agreement

About the authors

• Hans Geeroms

  Hans Geeroms was Senior Advisor for EU Affairs at the National Bank of Belgium until August 2024. As such, he was a member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the EU and of the International Relations Committee of the ESCB. He was the Co-chair of the EU-UK Network, gathering the ECB and the 27 National Central Banks to analyse the consequences of Brexit for the EU and its member states.

  He was EU adviser to two Belgian Prime Ministers and worked for the European Commission on the enlargement of the EU, financial support for future member states and approximation of legislation.

  Hans is Emeritus Professor of  the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where he lectured EU economic policy and International Economics. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe where he teaches EU macro-economic policy.

  His main fields of interest include: EU-UK relations, EU’s macro-economic policy, financial regulation and the EU’s budget. He has published extensively on these topics and is the author of a textbook on the crisis of the Eurozone and its impact on the EU’s economic governance and one on International Economics.

  Hans Geeroms holds a PhD. in economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.